Cannabis

As the marijuana industry is expanding in Nevada, cannabis testing labs are playing an important role in the quality of the end-product. Reno Public Radio’s Anh Gray reports a local facility is upping the standard of its operations.

Elko is extending its ban on medical marijuana shops despite comments from residents who want it lifted.

Elko Daily Free Press reporter Marianne McKown says most people who attended the meeting last week spoke in favor of the dispensaries.

“Pretty much everybody who got up said that they were for lifting the ban on medical marijuana,” she says, “because it’s already hard enough to find doctors; we shouldn’t eliminate being able to get our medicine.”

Nevada's second medical marijuana dispensary opens its doors next week, but a state backlog has many patients still waiting to receive their cards. Even though the industry is in its infancy, our reporter Julia Ritchey tells us that demand is high.

The new Sierra Wellness Connection dispensary is fairly inconspicuous in an office park off Second Street.

An initiative to allow recreational marijuana in Nevada has gained enough signatures to go on the ballot next election.

It was a good election year for supporters of legalizing pot. Voters in two states and Washington D.C. passed laws allowing recreational use of the drug. While it wasn't on the ballot in Nevada, plenty of people plan to vote for it here come 2016.